Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Zephyr Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Illustrated with nearly 100 color plates of various carousel animals, as well as other color and black/white photographs. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket shows some rubbing and slight curling at the edges. Shows horses and menagerie animals carved out of wood for American and European carousels, traces the history of carousel rides, and looks at some prominent manufacturers.
Softcover. np, Morgan Horse Club et al, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 12 pages stapled, light tan wrappers. The annual contest was held in Vermont, October 19-24, 1925. This little booklet has all the rules and regulations, Awards were given for condition and speed. The object was to identify the type, soundness and proper selection of horses for a long, difficult ride.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Vintage Children's Picture Book with stories and poems about horses and beautifully illustrated throughout by Feodor Rojankovsky.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 90 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover. Red quarter cloth. Bumps to corners of covers, top and bottom of spine has some light fraying. Pages have a touch of tanning.
Softcover. Greendale WI, Reiman Publications, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 252 pages, an amazing collection of vintage and antique photos of horses in harnesses. Working horses get their respect in this softcover book covering nearly every category of horse drawn carriage, cart, wagon. Logging to fire to coal to breweries. Also includes many images of harnesses, hitching posts, sleighs. Shows men and women who cared for working horses, from farms to cities. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green pebbled cloth stamped with a gilt design of an Arab horseman standing next to his horse, gilt title on spine. Commentaries by The Emir Abd-El-Kader, translated from the French by James Hutton. Clean and bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, C.M. Saxton & Company, 1st, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages+ 2 pages of ads at rear. Worn and soiled brown leather boards with "Presented by the Vermont State Agricultural Society" stamped in gilt on front board. Marbled endpapers. Black spine label with gilt lettering. Many illustrations. Traces the pedigree of the Morgan horse from the original Justin Morgan with hints for breeding, breaking and general use and management. Front hinge cracked, interior clean, binding tight.
Hardcover. NY, McClure, Phillips & Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in red cloth with gilt tiles on front cover and spine, 287 pages. Illustrated in black and white, color frontispiece. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Lexington KY, John Bradford Press, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. Color photographs and B&W illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear, price-clipped. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Previous owner's inscription. Overall, a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Artists and Writers Guild, 1st US, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color pictorial paper wrappers. 6 full-page three-color illustrations and several b&w illustrations by Aldin. Light worn at edges, some light wear to covers, else a clean, tight copy without dust jacket as issued. First US edition. A charming story of a young girl and her dog, a little black Scotch Terrier puppy named Smut, as they go about their lives, encountering other dogs, policemen, and even horses. Cecil Aldin was a British artist best known for his paintings and sketches of animals and rural life, all of which is magnificently captured in this delightful tale. Small worm hole to fore-edge, paper tanning, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 292 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED BY COHN on the dedication page. Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn show how a confluence of geographic, technological, economic, and social conditions in the United States and Canada turned an ancient idea into a practical alternative to more expensive and dangerous steamboats. Reviewing evidence from travelers' memoirs, regional histories, pictorial records, and the only horseboat ever studied by archaeologists - a wreck on the floor of Lake Champlain's Burlington Bay, in Vermont - the authors trace the evolution of horseboats from early mechanisms that forced the animals to walk in tight circles to "endless floor" treadmills that resembled modern exercise machines. In a lively narrative interspersed with quotes from passenger accounts, the book charts the rise and demise of horseboat businesses on the Hudson River, as well as in New York City, St. Louis, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. The authors also describe and record the underwater excavation of the Lake Champlain wreck, revealing a wealth of detail about the construction and operation of a typical treadwheel horseboat of the 1830s and 1840s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1st, 1860, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Stated Author's Edition. Brick colored end papers scarred & chipped. Small discard stamp on title-page - ex-library with few markings. Short tear to page 7 of preface. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine faded. Uncommon book detailing the hunting of Indian animals, including man-eaters, panthers, bears, buffalo and wild elephants.
NY, Sterling, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Acclaimed artist and naturalist Jim Arnosky has created a breathtaking and informative reference on the subject, filled with intricately drawn prints from creatures both wild and domestic, as well as large-scale paintings of the animals in their environment. Best of all, many of the tracks are true to size, so children can compare the trace left by a big-footed polar bear (whose paws act as snowshoes in its icy environment) with that of a small bird. Adding to the eye-catching illustrations are four awesome gatefolds that display paintings of a bobcat, wolf, deer and a variety of hoofed animals right next to their prints. And the featured menagerie includes bighorn sheep and goats, chipmunks and rabbits, grizzlies and brown bears, horses and burros, domestic cats and dogs and even slithering reptiles!
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